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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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